The Magnolia Sword Quotes

“At deception he means. Perhaps I am better than some, but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“I am not "just" a girl - no woman is. And if Heaven has deposited me at this time and place, then I am meant to deal with these problems, no matter their scale or consequence.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“What is courage but strength in the face of fear?”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“Do you believe in reincarnation?"
"I . . . I don't know."
"I do. Next lifetime, let's not waste years upon years. Let's be friends from the very beginning.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“Brotherhood might be unique to men, but loyalty, devotion to friends, and a sense of fairness are not. They are the precise reasons I became a conscript in Dabao's place. I could never have been at peace with myself knowing that it was within my power to do something for Auntie Xia and Dabao and not have done it.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“Are elderly women easier to fool than seven-year-olds? Which one wants more desperately to believe that a loved one will return against all odds?”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“And to all of the challenges and rewards of my new life.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“But if the Wall kept proving itself useless, why did more of it get built?”

Yu’s voice dips even lower. “Because it seemed an obvious solution. It made both the emperor and the people think something was being done. And we have all, at some point, confused doing something—anything—with actually solving the problem.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be. But”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan